A Shark

2005

Past & Present

Dong-hyun Kim | 2005 | Fiction | DV | Color | 108min

SYNOPSIS

A fisherman, Yeongcheol, who lives in an island, arrives at a city in the hot summer to show a white shark to his friend, Jungu. Jungu who is busy with gambling somewhere does not show up and the shark in Yeongchel's bag is going bad. Yusu, who Yeongcheol ran into at a park is released from prison and wandering from street to street not knowing where he can find his house. A crazy woman, Eunsuk praying for rain in the middle of the park under glaring sunshine starts to chase Yeongchel and Yusu. She thinks the stink of the rotting shark is her dead baby's smell.

DIRECTING INTENTION

The substantial relation with another person does not start from superficial interaction between you and me but from incidents that your another self and the self you did not recognize cause. I imagine that even the will without will that might be in vain in the end becomes the cornerstone of each other's happiness. The story's characters are so-called minor class of the society including a manual laborer, fisherman, released convict, crazy woman, tearoom hostess, and gambler. Those who seem to be one step away from living on the right track start to find the way to come back to their forgotten home(nature) by changing awkward meeting into substantial relation.

FESTIVAL & AWARDS

World Premiere
- 2005 영화진흥위원회 독립디지털장편영화 지원작

DIRECTOR
Dong-hyun Kim

Dong-hyun Kim

<검으나 땅에 희나 백성>(감독 배용균) 조연출, 1995
<섬으로부터>, 1997
<배고픈 하루 A Starving Day>, 2004
STAFF

Director Dong-hyun Kim
Producer Dong-hyun Kim
Screen Writer Dong-hyun Kim
Cinematographer Jung-ho Go
Editor Do-hyun Lee
Lighting Jung-ho Go
Art Director In-kyung Seo
Cast Mi-ya Kim, Seung-il Hong, Seong-hwan Gu, Gi-jun Hong